Scheduler component, or cron as messages
crontab -l under a login nobody remembers creating. That is where the real business logic of one server lived: a nightly cleanup, an export, a retry script. Symfony 6.3 came out yesterday with a Scheduler component. Periodic tasks defined in PHP, executed as Messenger messages. Experimental, but the idea deserves a note. #[AsSchedule('default')] final class MainSchedule implements ScheduleProviderInterface { public function getSchedule(): Schedule { return (new Schedule())->add( RecurringMessage::every('10 minutes', new CleanupExpiredCarts()), ); } } Then messenger:consume scheduler_default, and a worker fires the messages. ...